It becomes more and more frustrating, the more ardently we play the game. The more determined I am to play this happiness game in life, the more frustrated I become. That is why the people who have the most money, which means the most facility to enjoy the senses in the biggest ways, are the most depressed, the most unhappy, the most dissatisfied. It is...
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Birth Yes, we’ve come up with all our man-made solutions to the problems of life, but they don’t work. We don’t even know what the real problems of life are. The yoga teachings say the real problems of life are birth, disease, old age and death. These are the real problems of life. Now who sees birth as a problem? Most people see it as,...
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Because we’re so dependent on the external world, trying to satisfy an infinite need from a finite source, we’re absolutely depleting the planet of all the raw materials. We’re making it so there’s no clean water to drink, there’s no good food to eat, there’s no clean air to breathe. The things that are necessary to...
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If a person begins to study yoga, he will find the warning signs all over the place, “That’s not good, that’s not good, and that’s not good. You will never achieve it, you will never find it in this way.” When I was growing up, if something was lost and it was very difficult to find it, or there was a small probability, they would...
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When we get this message that ‘I’m hungry spiritually’, we misinterpret that and think, “Oh, I need some more things. I need to go somewhere, I need to do this pleasure, I need to do that pleasure.” When we become followers of, believers in, practitioners of the yoga system, we begin to interpret the message as it is correctly. When I feel...
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